"the Golden Compass" - a movie that I frankly know nothing about, has garnered the very BEST publicity just in the nick of time!"The Vatican newspaper called the movie "the most anti-Christmas film possible" and said that it was "consoling" that its first weekend ticket sales were a disappointing $26 million."Well folks, I am sure that will change. I know I am now curious about a movie that garnered so much wrath from the Vatican.You just don't get better publicity than this!

Christmas afternoon they have a special "Heretics" showing of "The Golden Compass" and other banned shorts at a Heather near you ! So get out your Holiday snacks and your "X-Mas" lunch box and enjoy !!

“Compass,” in fact, was No. 1 at the box office over the weekend. It pushed “Enchanted” to second place by earning an estimated $26.1 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, New Line Cinema reported Sunday.

And all this comes on the heels of the huge success of the “Lord of the Rings” films, the “Harry Potter” franchise and 2005’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

A successful fantastic film artfully mixes the familiar and the fanciful. For all their extraordinary elements, the worlds of Harry Potter and Middle-Earth feel tactile and inhabitable, often more so than the airbrushed universe of the X-Men or Superman. Wedding childlike wonder to grown-up themes (with some teen-delighting combat along the way), the result, studios hope, is a demographic smart bomb whose revenue-generating powers never go out of style.

Ok couldn't find out why it was banned or even if it was banned. Sometimes publicists like to say a movie or a book is banned when they can't find a distributer.

Barry after you see it Christmas day post a little revue for us !!!

__________________If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself ! Mick #7

Ok couldn't find out why it was banned or even if it was banned. Sometimes publicists like to say a movie or a book is banned when they can't find a distributer.

Barry after you see it Christmas day post a little revue for us !!!

Tom,The "Banned in Boston" was an allusion to years ago when Boston banning films would lead to success and notoriety elsewhere. From what I have read about it in reviews it doesn't seem interesting enough to break my general aversion to regular theaters. The picture on my Home Theater blows away all but a really good iMax. My home theater has no unwanted conversation and great wine and munchies, not to mention no bubble gum under the chairs

I was hoping for other opinions from people who have seen the movie so I know if I should add it to my Netflix queue..

I get more curious about this movie every time I read something about it. My view is that religious types, into the religion rather than the spirituality, have difficulty with diverse beliefs and disbeliefs. Moslems see Satan in anything that even considers abandonment of Islam. The Catholic Church with it huge international financial empire sees anything that questions it as evil. I think that if these beleif systems, so reliant on universal acceptance, started out again from scratch, they would not make it in the modern world. Just my opinion.

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